Learn how to grow your butt without getting thicker legs with our 90 day fitness and nutrition program
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If you want to learn how to grow your butt without growing your thighs this is the ideal workout for you. Almost all workouts for lower body are a combined butt and thigh workout, which means that if you’re quad dominant, you will grow your legs at the same time. For women who want to know how to grow your glutes but maintain slim legs, this glute isolation workout will at least help you zero in on the butt and avoid engaging the quads.
Often times the best exercise for a bigger butt also heavily engages the quads, meaning that if you have a tendency to grow large leg muscles, you will be growing the legs at the same time as growing your butt. But this glute workout really helps you isolate the muscles in the butt without recruiting the leg muscles too much so you can get a round butt.
If you want to know how to get a bigger butt try out these glutes isolation exercises. Do each of the exercises in this butt workout for 10-12 reps before moving on to the next. If you are a beginner, shoot for 1-2 rounds of this workout for how to grow your glutes. If you are more advanced shoot for 3-4 rounds of this glute workout. If you are looking for a full length workout dedicated just to glutes, check out our complete Athlean-XX for Women program https://athleanx.com/best-workout-program-for-women/getlean
Here are the exercises that make up this booty workout:
1) Deadlifts
2) ResistanceBand Walks
3) Resistance Band BenchTaps
4) Froggies on Bench
For all the best workouts for glutes, subscribe to our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/womensworkouts

published:20 Jun 2017

views:668546

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**No sugar coating it, these are the TOP 9 GLUTE isolation exercises you MUST do to grow your glutes (it's actually backed by science too). Expert StrengthCoachBrian Klepacki, MS and IFBB Pro MarciaGoncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty exercises you can do anywhere.**
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I'm talking about your glutes.
Your glutes are your body's most powerful muscle, yet they're also the most misunderstood.
To fully develop your glutes, your training needs to focus on two elements: 1) glute-specific movements and 2) targeting all three muscles, with all three exercise strategies in all three planes of motion.
By far, the biggest myth holding you back is that squats, lunges and deadlifts are GLUTE exercises. They’re not. They’re leg exercises. They can activate the glutes incidentally, but they're all about the legs.
If you want stronger glutes, why aren’t you doing glute isolation exercises?
In this video Expert Strength Coach Brian Klepacki, MS & Creator of Unlock Your Glutes, and IFBB Pro Marcia Goncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty building exercises you can do anywhere.
Here are the exercises in order:
For the gluteus maximus:
-Hip thrust
-Glute bridge
-Bulgarian SplitSquat
For the gluteus medius:
-Side Plank Kicks
-Frog Pump
-Squat to Hip Abduction
For the gluteus minimus:
-Clam shell
-Bent Knee Side Plank Hold
-Single Leg Glute Bridge
Use these exercises to successfully target your glutes and start developing them immediately!
===
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published:23 Apr 2018

views:391281

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
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Since airing, Christian, the eldest son featured in this short, has become a successful world traveller and teaches extreme survival skills in Antarctica. To find out more about his life after growing up at Gorge River, check out his Adventure Travel Blog: www.WildKiwi.org
And his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-76PfqWz3qUjx4fAnuFMg
For similar stories, see:
What's It Like to Become a Monk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HvQ50cnvE
The DanishSchool Where ChildrenPlay With Knives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2NIhXrjIQ
Climate Change Is Forcing Farmers To Change Their Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKeM58wKKU
The Long family live as hermits in South Westland, New Zealand.They live in a makeshift hut without even the basics of modern life and have had no contact with the outside world for over 15 years.
Once a young medical student poised for great success, Robert Long decided to relocate his family to the bush. "I wanted to be somewhere where it was all wilderness", he says. Now living amongst the mountains of New Zealand they thrive from a lifestyle that would terrify most people. Of his children, he says "I think they concentrate on what we miss out on, they don't realise how much we have that they don't have."
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published:07 Sep 2016

views:2562965

In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 2014. At least 12 cases of lynching on the suspicion of child abduction have happened since just May this year. In what has become India's national shame, lynchings and cow politics has risen since 2014, when the Modi government came to power. Are these mob lynchings isolated instances or a growing epidemic?
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published:03 Jul 2018

views:799

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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published:22 Aug 2016

views:483009

Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by PecosHank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com
- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.
All storm Footage Copyright Hank Schyma 2015
To license 4K storm footage or HD, contact hankschyma@gmail.com

published:08 Sep 2015

views:652582

Read More: http://www.GistOnThis.com
David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully lower a seedling in. Then he put in just about a quarter of a pint of water, and believe it or not, he only watered the plant once more in 1972. Never again after that. It has been alive and kicking for the past 54 years.
The plant that David placed in the bottle is an indoor variety of perennial spiderworts that also go by the Latin name of Tradescantia. The bottle itself is tightly sealed; David only needs to rotate it around often so it grows evenly towards the light. "Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance," he said. "I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle."
So what makes the spiderwort so special that it can grow with almost no outside help? The secret is really pretty simple -- the plant has been extremely successful at creating its own mini ecosystem. Using the little water that David gave the plant 42 years ago, it has managed to get a water cycle going inside the bottle. The water is taken up by the roots, released into the air through transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture and the cycle repeats itself.
Through the glass, the leaves are able absorb as much light as they need to photosynthesize into energy that helps the plant grow. The oxygen created during photosynthesis also puts enough moisture in the air for it to 'rain' back down on the plant. As the leaves age, they drop to the bottom and rot, helping to create carbon dioxide (also needed for photosynthesis) and nutrients that are absorbed by the roots. At night, when there is no sunlight, the plant breaks down nutrients and uses cellular respiration to stay alive.
The bottle has lived for 27 years in the same spot in David's retirement home in Cranleigh, Surrey. He took a photograph of it to a BBC radio show called 'Gardener's Question Time', to check with the experts if the plant was of any horticultural interest. And that's when it gained the media's attention. According to garden designer and television presenter Chris Beardshaw, "It's a great example of the way in which a plant is able to recycle, it's the perfect cycle of life."
Beardshaw pointed out that this process was one of the reasons for NASA's interest in taking plants into space. "Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining. This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity," he said.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about bottle gardens. Like organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, who said: "It's wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can't see the point. I can't smell it, I can't eat it." David has no choice but to agree with Bob. David did say that the bottle is incredibly dull and doesn't really do anything, but he's still excited to see just how long it will last. He hopes to pass it on to his future generations, and if they aren't interested, to the Royal Horticultural Society.
David's bottle garden is essentially one of the best examples of nature's recycling process. And the wonderful part is that it should work with almost any plant, not just spiderworts. All you need to create your own is a large glass container with a wide neck and some good quality potting compost, deep enough for the plant to sink in its roots. Introduce very few tiny specimens of the plant of your choice, move them into position with kitchen tongs, water them ever-so-lightly, seal the jar, and place it in a well-lit spot. That's about it -- you've got yourself a beautiful bottle garden that will thrive for years to come.

published:30 May 2014

views:4755020

The charity Campaign to End Loneliness says that one million of us are already suffering from acute loneliness, while two and a half million over 60s fear they could end up similarly isolated.

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms some inmates spend in the facilities.
More than 500California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those people, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.
Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by staff.
However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit except for a section housing leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.
Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team was able to record Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff only began allowing the balls last year). At all other times—day and night—he is held in his cell alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.
Reporter: Michael Montgomery
Videographer: Singeli Agnew
Editor: Lisa Pickoff-White
Produced by KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting

See also

Growing (band)

Growing is a drone music/ambient music/noise music band formed in Olympia, Washington, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The group was founded in 2001 by Kevin Doria (electric bass guitar), Joe Denardo (electric guitar), and Zack Carlson (drums). Carlson left following their first album, and the band continued as a duo until 2009, when they recruited Sadie Laska (samplers, microphone) to form a new trio. The group's music has gradually progressed from slow, instrumental drone pieces through works in noise and ambient music toward more propulsive, rhythm driven music. Their live shows are consistently known for being very loud, playing straight through their set without breaks or banter between songs.

Notable and Recent Releases and Tours

Growing have released albums on labels such as Kranky, Animal Disguise, Archive, Megablade/Troubleman, and The Social Registry. At the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 Growing released their first two releases for The Social Registry; a 7-inch single for the label Social Club series and a mini-lp entitled Lateral. In 2010 they released an album on Vice Records.

Growing (album)

Growing is the second studio album by Sleeping People, released on October 9, 2007. The final track, "People Staying Awake", is the only Sleeping People track to feature vocals, which are provided by Joileah Thalmann and Rob Crow from Pinback.

Track listing

"Centipede's Dream" - 1:24

"James Spader" - 7:03

"Yellow Guy / Pink Eye" - 4:27

"Mouth Breeder" - 8:53

"...Out Dream" - 2:51

"Three Things" - 6:09

"Grow Worm" - 4:19

"Underland" - 3:22

"It's Heart Loves Open" - 1:55

"People Staying Awake" - 6:30

References

Time Lapse

Time Lapse is the first live album by guitarist Steve Hackett. The album is drawn from live performances at the Savoy Theater in New York City (during the Cured tour) and at Central TV Studios in Nottingham.

Time Lapse (The Twilight Zone)

Opening narration

Plot

In Phoenix, Arizona, orderly Zack Walker is helping his fiancée and nurse Maria wheel in a patient with a head wound. A Secret Service agent tells them that he has put a guard on the door and that they are to notify the man if the patient, Tom Fisk, says anything. As they discuss their engagement and her brother's upcoming bachelor party, Zack suddenly blacks out. He finds himself in a cheap hotel room with his car keys on the desk. There is also a newspaper which reveals that he is in Portland, Oregon, and two days have passed since he can remember. On the bed is a duffel bag with a cell phone and a plastic gun.

Zack talks to the front desk clerk, who confirms that she checked him in. He then calls Maria, who does not understand and thinks that he is trying to get out of their engagement. Zack finds his car outside in the night, throws away the gun, and starts to drive away and suddenly discovers that it is daylight and he is driving down a country road. He manages to pull over in time and discovers the plastic gun is in the back seat. He throws it away again and finds a sign saying that he is 43 miles out of Seattle.

In a Time Lapse

In a Time Lapse is a studio album by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi released on January21,2013(2013-01-21). Two days before the release, on January 19, Einaudi played live from his home in Milan solo arrangements of some of the music from In a Time Lapse through his official YouTube channel.

Track listing

Reception

Critical reception

In a Time Lapse has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from music critics. According to a Classic FM review, "The Italian composer strikes gold once more with a haunting combination of dreamlike piano tunes and busy orchestral soundscapes." The CD Critic put forth that In a Time Lapse is "gorgeously ambient."The Independent was mesmerized by the "trancelike wave motion of tracks like 'Corale' and 'Run'", while also commenting on Einaudi's talent, saying that "there's a deeply satisfying emotional logic to his piano-based progressions that makes him as much the inheritor of Chopin and Satie as minimalists such as Glass and Reich."

Learn how to grow your butt without getting thicker legs with our 90 day fitness and nutrition program
http://athleanx.com/x/grow-butt-not-legs
If you want to learn how to grow your butt without growing your thighs this is the ideal workout for you. Almost all workouts for lower body are a combined butt and thigh workout, which means that if you’re quad dominant, you will grow your legs at the same time. For women who want to know how to grow your glutes but maintain slim legs, this glute isolation workout will at least help you zero in on the butt and avoid engaging the quads.
Often times the best exercise for a bigger butt also heavily engages the quads, meaning that if you have a tendency to grow large leg muscles, you will be growing the legs at the same time as growing your butt. But this glute workout really helps you isolate the muscles in the butt without recruiting the leg muscles too much so you can get a round butt.
If you want to know how to get a bigger butt try out these glutes isolation exercises. Do each of the exercises in this butt workout for 10-12 reps before moving on to the next. If you are a beginner, shoot for 1-2 rounds of this workout for how to grow your glutes. If you are more advanced shoot for 3-4 rounds of this glute workout. If you are looking for a full length workout dedicated just to glutes, check out our complete Athlean-XX for Women program https://athleanx.com/best-workout-program-for-women/getlean
Here are the exercises that make up this booty workout:
1) Deadlifts
2) ResistanceBand Walks
3) Resistance Band BenchTaps
4) Froggies on Bench
For all the best workouts for glutes, subscribe to our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/womensworkouts

#1 muscle that eliminates joint and back pain, anxiety & looking fat
http://www.criticalbench.com/growth/psoas2
**No sugar coating it, these are the TOP 9 GLUTE isolation exercises you MUST do to grow your glutes (it's actually backed by science too). Expert StrengthCoachBrian Klepacki, MS and IFBB Pro MarciaGoncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty exercises you can do anywhere.**
FREE 5-Minute GluteWorkout
http://www.criticalbench.com/glutes/
===
You’ve been LIED TO about how to train your body’s BIGGEST muscle… And it's cost you in your performance, your health and even how you look.
I'm talking about your glutes.
Your glutes are your body's most powerful muscle, yet they're also the most misunderstood.
To fully develop your glutes, your training needs to focus on two elements: 1) glute-specific movements and 2) targeting all three muscles, with all three exercise strategies in all three planes of motion.
By far, the biggest myth holding you back is that squats, lunges and deadlifts are GLUTE exercises. They’re not. They’re leg exercises. They can activate the glutes incidentally, but they're all about the legs.
If you want stronger glutes, why aren’t you doing glute isolation exercises?
In this video Expert Strength Coach Brian Klepacki, MS & Creator of Unlock Your Glutes, and IFBB Pro Marcia Goncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty building exercises you can do anywhere.
Here are the exercises in order:
For the gluteus maximus:
-Hip thrust
-Glute bridge
-Bulgarian SplitSquat
For the gluteus medius:
-Side Plank Kicks
-Frog Pump
-Squat to Hip Abduction
For the gluteus minimus:
-Clam shell
-Bent Knee Side Plank Hold
-Single Leg Glute Bridge
Use these exercises to successfully target your glutes and start developing them immediately!
===
The #1Exercise to Develop a Rounder StrongerButt
https://www.criticalbench.com/growth/unlock-glutes
Subscribe to Our Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=criticalbench
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12:45

This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads:
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Since airing, Christian, the eldest son featured in this short, has become a successful world traveller and teaches extreme survival skills in Antarctica. To find out more about his life after growing up at Gorge River, check out his Adventure Travel Blog: www.WildKiwi.org
And his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-76PfqWz3qUjx4fAnuFMg
For similar stories, see:
What's It Like to Become a Monk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HvQ50cnvE
The DanishSchool Where ChildrenPlay With Knives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2NIhXrjIQ
Climate Change Is Forcing Farmers To Change Their Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKeM58wKKU
The Long family live as hermits in South Westland, New Zealand.They live in a makeshift hut without even the basics of modern life and have had no contact with the outside world for over 15 years.
Once a young medical student poised for great success, Robert Long decided to relocate his family to the bush. "I wanted to be somewhere where it was all wilderness", he says. Now living amongst the mountains of New Zealand they thrive from a lifestyle that would terrify most people. Of his children, he says "I think they concentrate on what we miss out on, they don't realise how much we have that they don't have."
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In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 2014. At least 12 cases of lynching on the suspicion of child abduction have happened since just May this year. In what has become India's national shame, lynchings and cow politics has risen since 2014, when the Modi government came to power. Are these mob lynchings isolated instances or a growing epidemic?
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9:12

How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate
Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews
Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED
Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by PecosHank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com
- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.
All storm Footage Copyright Hank Schyma 2015
To license 4K storm footage or HD, contact hankschyma@gmail.com

5:39

Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully lower a seedling in. Then he put in just about a quarter of a pint of water, and believe it or not, he only watered the plant once more in 1972. Never again after that. It has been alive and kicking for the past 54 years.
The plant that David placed in the bottle is an indoor variety of perennial spiderworts that also go by the Latin name of Tradescantia. The bottle itself is tightly sealed; David only needs to rotate it around often so it grows evenly towards the light. "Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance," he said. "I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle."
So what makes the spiderwort so special that it can grow with almost no outside help? The secret is really pretty simple -- the plant has been extremely successful at creating its own mini ecosystem. Using the little water that David gave the plant 42 years ago, it has managed to get a water cycle going inside the bottle. The water is taken up by the roots, released into the air through transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture and the cycle repeats itself.
Through the glass, the leaves are able absorb as much light as they need to photosynthesize into energy that helps the plant grow. The oxygen created during photosynthesis also puts enough moisture in the air for it to 'rain' back down on the plant. As the leaves age, they drop to the bottom and rot, helping to create carbon dioxide (also needed for photosynthesis) and nutrients that are absorbed by the roots. At night, when there is no sunlight, the plant breaks down nutrients and uses cellular respiration to stay alive.
The bottle has lived for 27 years in the same spot in David's retirement home in Cranleigh, Surrey. He took a photograph of it to a BBC radio show called 'Gardener's Question Time', to check with the experts if the plant was of any horticultural interest. And that's when it gained the media's attention. According to garden designer and television presenter Chris Beardshaw, "It's a great example of the way in which a plant is able to recycle, it's the perfect cycle of life."
Beardshaw pointed out that this process was one of the reasons for NASA's interest in taking plants into space. "Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining. This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity," he said.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about bottle gardens. Like organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, who said: "It's wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can't see the point. I can't smell it, I can't eat it." David has no choice but to agree with Bob. David did say that the bottle is incredibly dull and doesn't really do anything, but he's still excited to see just how long it will last. He hopes to pass it on to his future generations, and if they aren't interested, to the Royal Horticultural Society.
David's bottle garden is essentially one of the best examples of nature's recycling process. And the wonderful part is that it should work with almost any plant, not just spiderworts. All you need to create your own is a large glass container with a wide neck and some good quality potting compost, deep enough for the plant to sink in its roots. Introduce very few tiny specimens of the plant of your choice, move them into position with kitchen tongs, water them ever-so-lightly, seal the jar, and place it in a well-lit spot. That's about it -- you've got yourself a beautiful bottle garden that will thrive for years to come.

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What does it feel like to be old and alone?

What does it feel like to be old and alone?

What does it feel like to be old and alone?

The charity Campaign to End Loneliness says that one million of us are already suffering from acute loneliness, while two and a half million over 60s fear they could end up similarly isolated.

California's Prison Isolation Units: Necessary or Inhumane?

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms some inmates spend in the facilities.
More than 500California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those people, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.
Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by staff.
However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit except for a section housing leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.
Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team was able to record Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff only began allowing the balls last year). At all other times—day and night—he is held in his cell alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.
Reporter: Michael Montgomery
Videographer: Singeli Agnew
Editor: Lisa Pickoff-White
Produced by KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting

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Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!

Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!

Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!

In this video, we meet Jeff, Rose, and their 5 girls who are living completely off grid on a 40-acre piece of land in NorthernBritish Columbia, Canada. They built their own off-grid house for less than $25,000 with cedar posts sunk into the ground like a pole barn, log rafters, plywood, foam insulation, and a living roof. The house was so affordable to build because they didn't have to excavate or pour a concrete foundation, dig a well, or install a septic system.
They have 2 solar power systems to power everything they need. The first solar system is just one solar panel that generates 12-Volt power for their lights, cell phones, and music player. The larger system is a 2.5 Kilowatt solar power system installed on their shop roof with a lithium ion battery bank that powers their full-sized fridge, a chest freezer, washing machine, as well as a mixer, blender and a toaster. They have a backup generator but they only have to use it for about 40 hours per year during prolonged cloudy or snowy periods.
All of the water the family uses is rainwater collected from their shop roof and stored in a tank under the shop floor to keep it cool. They carry buckets of water into the house for cooking, dishes and showers. To produce clean drinking water, they filter their rainwater in a passive water filter called a Burkey (check them out here: http://www.berkeyfilters.com).
The grey water from their kitchen sink and shower drains into a shallow grey water field in the backyard.
They have 2 composting bucket toilets and they sprinkle sawdust into the buckets after each use to absorb moisture and prevent smells.
For heat, they cut their own firewood for their BlazeKing catalytic wood stove, and for their antique cookstove in the kitchen that they use for cooking and baking.
Jeff and Rose homeschool their 5 girls for a few hours each day and also ensure that their kids are learning diverse life skills like growing their own food, caring for horses, raising bees, and more.
We're very impressed with the clever solutions this family has come up with to make off-grid living seem so easy.
If you want to learn more about this inspiring family and follow their journey, check out their Gridlessness project — they have a blog and a YouTube channel.
Gridlessness YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClt1rDdFd-VUX8VXmWummSQ
Gridlessness Blog:
http://gridlessness.com
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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MOST ISOLATED Communities Around the World

From the isolated native people in the highlands of Tibet to the mysterious islands on a few people will dare to live on, here are 11 most isolated communities
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5. Most Isolated Capital
What do you think the coldest capital on earth is? Moscow, Bern, Ottawa? All Wrong! If you guessed Ulaanbaatar located in Mongolia good job! To the south lies a strange, dry, cold Gobi desert that receives little to no precipitation all year. To the North, you have siberia.
This city is regarded as the coldest capital on earth and suffers from long and unbearable freezing winters! We sort of see it as the most isolated capital as well and this whole area of Central Asia is just extremely remote! We don’t even think Genghis Khan could have handled temperatures this cold. Just walking on the street with any exposed skin can result in pain. Do you ever hear anyone saying, hey i’m taking off work to go to Mongolia for a week!? Uh no.. You really wouldn't want to forget a jacket living here. It’s also the largest city on the list with roughly 1.3 million inhabitants which is nearly half the country's population. We’re still surprised that mongolians got out of their huts and even built a capital! Due to its high elevation, proximity to Siberia and lack of precipitation, it’s a rough place to live nonetheless. Due to a large amount of permafrost soil in Mongolia, it makes building foundations difficult. It’s believed this is why many Mongolians live in houses known as Yurts.
4. Siwa OasisWithin the vast Sahara desert lies the Siwa Oasis, in one of the most isolated settlements in Egypt. Situated near the Libyan border, it’s about 348 miles or 560 kilometers west of the capital Cairo. Living here however is nothing new and the earliest known settlers came here during the 10th century BC. Being completely surrounded by dry, inhospitable desert has allowed the Siwa people to develop a unique culture from the rest of the Middle East, which is often seen in their style of artwork, jewelry and their same sex marriage ceremonies. They also speak what’s known as the Siwi or Oasis berber, making them somewhat foreign to the eastern part of Egypt. Here in this photo we see a girl wearing the traditional dress of Siwa while grinding salt. The oasis is inhabited by about 30,000 Siwa Berbers and the hot springs are known to occasionally attract tourists. If you’re looking for some good dates, the people of the Siwa Oasis have been growing them for the past 3,500 years
3. Montecristo
The tiny island off the coast of Tuscany, Italy called Montecristo has been shrouded in mystery since the 16th century. To this day, only 1000 tourists are permitted to visit the nature reserve located on this island each year. On top of it, they have to wait 3 years in order to get the visa, just to visit! Is there something the Italian government doesn’t want people to find out about here or is it just to preserve the nature. This was also home to the famous French writerAlexandre Dumas, who wrote the 3 Musketeers. In the novel The count of Monte Cristo, he told of legends about buried treasure left by pirates here. Is it a coincidence that excavations are also strictly permitted on this island? The current population of this island is labelled at 2 people.
2. Szigetszentmiklos -(see-gets-zent-miklos)
This community in Hungary is found just about southwest of Budapest in Google maps and it’s quite strange how isolated they seem. The little hungarian community is completely surrounded by water near the Danube River and is quite unurbanized in comparison to the big capital city. There’s about 30,000 residents of this little town which but only a few hundred choose to live on these islands. Villagers enjoy hunting, fishing, and boating in order to stay self sufficient. You don’t really get a true sense of how isolated it is until you kind roam around here on google earth. This photo here shows the tiny fishing community on the body of water known as Pebble lake, and it looks like a good village to survive the zombie apocalypse
Tristan De Cuhna
This island gets the nickname as the most remote inhabited island in the world because it sort of is. Tristan is the tip of a volcano thrusted upwards from the ocean floor and by looking at the signs, you’ll definitely feel a long ways away from home. The elevation peaks at about 6500 feet. The closest land mass is Saint Helena only about 1500 miles away. It seems to be situated directly between the southern tips of Africa and South America and is only accessible by navigating the brutal seas . You might imagine that life on the world’s most remote island is a little bit rough, but people here enjoy a good standard of living here. Crime seems virtually nonexistent on the biggest settlement called Edinbourgh of the Seven Seas. Many family owns potato patches to grow there own food.

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This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
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Since airing, Christian, the eldest son featured in this short, has become a successful world traveller and teaches extreme survival skills in Antarctica. To find out more about his life after growing up at Gorge River, check out his Adventure Travel Blog: www.WildKiwi.org
And his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-76PfqWz3qUjx4fAnuFMg
For similar stories, see:
What's It Like to Become a Monk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HvQ50cnvE
The DanishSchool Where ChildrenPlay With Knives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2NIhXrjIQ
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How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
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Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully low...

published: 30 May 2014

What does it feel like to be old and alone?

The charity Campaign to End Loneliness says that one million of us are already suffering from acute loneliness, while two and a half million over 60s fear they could end up similarly isolated.

published: 03 Nov 2015

5 Underbutt Isolation Exercises for Ultimate Booty Lift

The underbutt. The part of your booty that you can grab under. The part where the glute meets the hamstring. The part that sorta shows when your shorts are too short! Haha. You know what I mean?!
Here is an at home, equipment free workout video that you can do to target the exact underbutt area. This means we will be working a lot of hamstrings (biceps femoris, semitendinosis, semimembranosis) in order to give your booty (your gluteus maximus, minimus, and medius) a lift from underneath.
We will be doing each of the following exercises for 1:30 each, no breaks!
1. WalkingBridge Combo
2. Single Leg Swivel (Right)
3. Single Leg Swivel (Left)
4. Grasshopper
5. Hamstring Curls
Workout starts at 1:51!
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California's Prison Isolation Units: Necessary or Inhumane?

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms ...

published: 24 Feb 2013

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Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!

In this video, we meet Jeff, Rose, and their 5 girls who are living completely off grid on a 40-acre piece of land in NorthernBritish Columbia, Canada. They built their own off-grid house for less than $25,000 with cedar posts sunk into the ground like a pole barn, log rafters, plywood, foam insulation, and a living roof. The house was so affordable to build because they didn't have to excavate or pour a concrete foundation, dig a well, or install a septic system.
They have 2 solar power systems to power everything they need. The first solar system is just one solar panel that generates 12-Volt power for their lights, cell phones, and music player. The larger system is a 2.5 Kilowatt solar power system installed on their shop roof with a lithium ion battery bank that powers their fu...

MOST ISOLATED Communities Around the World

From the isolated native people in the highlands of Tibet to the mysterious islands on a few people will dare to live on, here are 11 most isolated communities
Subscribe to American Eye!
5. Most Isolated Capital
What do you think the coldest capital on earth is? Moscow, Bern, Ottawa? All Wrong! If you guessed Ulaanbaatar located in Mongolia good job! To the south lies a strange, dry, cold Gobi desert that receives little to no precipitation all year. To the North, you have siberia.
This city is regarded as the coldest capital on earth and suffers from long and unbearable freezing winters! We sort of see it as the most isolated capital as well and this whole area of Central Asia is just extremely remote! We don’t even think Genghis Khan could have handled temperatures this cold. J...

Learn how to grow your butt without getting thicker legs with our 90 day fitness and nutrition program
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If you want to ...

Learn how to grow your butt without getting thicker legs with our 90 day fitness and nutrition program
http://athleanx.com/x/grow-butt-not-legs
If you want to learn how to grow your butt without growing your thighs this is the ideal workout for you. Almost all workouts for lower body are a combined butt and thigh workout, which means that if you’re quad dominant, you will grow your legs at the same time. For women who want to know how to grow your glutes but maintain slim legs, this glute isolation workout will at least help you zero in on the butt and avoid engaging the quads.
Often times the best exercise for a bigger butt also heavily engages the quads, meaning that if you have a tendency to grow large leg muscles, you will be growing the legs at the same time as growing your butt. But this glute workout really helps you isolate the muscles in the butt without recruiting the leg muscles too much so you can get a round butt.
If you want to know how to get a bigger butt try out these glutes isolation exercises. Do each of the exercises in this butt workout for 10-12 reps before moving on to the next. If you are a beginner, shoot for 1-2 rounds of this workout for how to grow your glutes. If you are more advanced shoot for 3-4 rounds of this glute workout. If you are looking for a full length workout dedicated just to glutes, check out our complete Athlean-XX for Women program https://athleanx.com/best-workout-program-for-women/getlean
Here are the exercises that make up this booty workout:
1) Deadlifts
2) ResistanceBand Walks
3) Resistance Band BenchTaps
4) Froggies on Bench
For all the best workouts for glutes, subscribe to our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/womensworkouts

Learn how to grow your butt without getting thicker legs with our 90 day fitness and nutrition program
http://athleanx.com/x/grow-butt-not-legs
If you want to learn how to grow your butt without growing your thighs this is the ideal workout for you. Almost all workouts for lower body are a combined butt and thigh workout, which means that if you’re quad dominant, you will grow your legs at the same time. For women who want to know how to grow your glutes but maintain slim legs, this glute isolation workout will at least help you zero in on the butt and avoid engaging the quads.
Often times the best exercise for a bigger butt also heavily engages the quads, meaning that if you have a tendency to grow large leg muscles, you will be growing the legs at the same time as growing your butt. But this glute workout really helps you isolate the muscles in the butt without recruiting the leg muscles too much so you can get a round butt.
If you want to know how to get a bigger butt try out these glutes isolation exercises. Do each of the exercises in this butt workout for 10-12 reps before moving on to the next. If you are a beginner, shoot for 1-2 rounds of this workout for how to grow your glutes. If you are more advanced shoot for 3-4 rounds of this glute workout. If you are looking for a full length workout dedicated just to glutes, check out our complete Athlean-XX for Women program https://athleanx.com/best-workout-program-for-women/getlean
Here are the exercises that make up this booty workout:
1) Deadlifts
2) ResistanceBand Walks
3) Resistance Band BenchTaps
4) Froggies on Bench
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**No sugar coating it, these are the TOP 9 GLUTE isolation exercises you MUST do to grow your glutes (it's actually backed by science too). Expert StrengthCoachBrian Klepacki, MS and IFBB Pro MarciaGoncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty exercises you can do anywhere.**
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I'm talking about your glutes.
Your glutes are your body's most powerful muscle, yet they're also the most misunderstood.
To fully develop your glutes, your training needs to focus on two elements: 1) glute-specific movements and 2) targeting all three muscles, with all three exercise strategies in all three planes of motion.
By far, the biggest myth holding you back is that squats, lunges and deadlifts are GLUTE exercises. They’re not. They’re leg exercises. They can activate the glutes incidentally, but they're all about the legs.
If you want stronger glutes, why aren’t you doing glute isolation exercises?
In this video Expert Strength Coach Brian Klepacki, MS & Creator of Unlock Your Glutes, and IFBB Pro Marcia Goncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty building exercises you can do anywhere.
Here are the exercises in order:
For the gluteus maximus:
-Hip thrust
-Glute bridge
-Bulgarian SplitSquat
For the gluteus medius:
-Side Plank Kicks
-Frog Pump
-Squat to Hip Abduction
For the gluteus minimus:
-Clam shell
-Bent Knee Side Plank Hold
-Single Leg Glute Bridge
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**No sugar coating it, these are the TOP 9 GLUTE isolation exercises you MUST do to grow your glutes (it's actually backed by science too). Expert StrengthCoachBrian Klepacki, MS and IFBB Pro MarciaGoncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty exercises you can do anywhere.**
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You’ve been LIED TO about how to train your body’s BIGGEST muscle… And it's cost you in your performance, your health and even how you look.
I'm talking about your glutes.
Your glutes are your body's most powerful muscle, yet they're also the most misunderstood.
To fully develop your glutes, your training needs to focus on two elements: 1) glute-specific movements and 2) targeting all three muscles, with all three exercise strategies in all three planes of motion.
By far, the biggest myth holding you back is that squats, lunges and deadlifts are GLUTE exercises. They’re not. They’re leg exercises. They can activate the glutes incidentally, but they're all about the legs.
If you want stronger glutes, why aren’t you doing glute isolation exercises?
In this video Expert Strength Coach Brian Klepacki, MS & Creator of Unlock Your Glutes, and IFBB Pro Marcia Goncalves give you 9 bodyweight booty building exercises you can do anywhere.
Here are the exercises in order:
For the gluteus maximus:
-Hip thrust
-Glute bridge
-Bulgarian SplitSquat
For the gluteus medius:
-Side Plank Kicks
-Frog Pump
-Squat to Hip Abduction
For the gluteus minimus:
-Clam shell
-Bent Knee Side Plank Hold
-Single Leg Glute Bridge
Use these exercises to successfully target your glutes and start developing them immediately!
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This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
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...

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
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Since airing, Christian, the eldest son featured in this short, has become a successful world traveller and teaches extreme survival skills in Antarctica. To find out more about his life after growing up at Gorge River, check out his Adventure Travel Blog: www.WildKiwi.org
And his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-76PfqWz3qUjx4fAnuFMg
For similar stories, see:
What's It Like to Become a Monk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HvQ50cnvE
The DanishSchool Where ChildrenPlay With Knives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2NIhXrjIQ
Climate Change Is Forcing Farmers To Change Their Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKeM58wKKU
The Long family live as hermits in South Westland, New Zealand.They live in a makeshift hut without even the basics of modern life and have had no contact with the outside world for over 15 years.
Once a young medical student poised for great success, Robert Long decided to relocate his family to the bush. "I wanted to be somewhere where it was all wilderness", he says. Now living amongst the mountains of New Zealand they thrive from a lifestyle that would terrify most people. Of his children, he says "I think they concentrate on what we miss out on, they don't realise how much we have that they don't have."
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The Long family live as hermits in South Westland, New Zealand.They live in a makeshift hut without even the basics of modern life and have had no contact with the outside world for over 15 years.
Once a young medical student poised for great success, Robert Long decided to relocate his family to the bush. "I wanted to be somewhere where it was all wilderness", he says. Now living amongst the mountains of New Zealand they thrive from a lifestyle that would terrify most people. Of his children, he says "I think they concentrate on what we miss out on, they don't realise how much we have that they don't have."
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In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 201...

In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 2014. At least 12 cases of lynching on the suspicion of child abduction have happened since just May this year. In what has become India's national shame, lynchings and cow politics has risen since 2014, when the Modi government came to power. Are these mob lynchings isolated instances or a growing epidemic?
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In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 2014. At least 12 cases of lynching on the suspicion of child abduction have happened since just May this year. In what has become India's national shame, lynchings and cow politics has risen since 2014, when the Modi government came to power. Are these mob lynchings isolated instances or a growing epidemic?
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How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur a...

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
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Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
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Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the m...

Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by PecosHank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com
- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.
All storm Footage Copyright Hank Schyma 2015
To license 4K storm footage or HD, contact hankschyma@gmail.com

Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by PecosHank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com
- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.
All storm Footage Copyright Hank Schyma 2015
To license 4K storm footage or HD, contact hankschyma@gmail.com

Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of...

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully lower a seedling in. Then he put in just about a quarter of a pint of water, and believe it or not, he only watered the plant once more in 1972. Never again after that. It has been alive and kicking for the past 54 years.
The plant that David placed in the bottle is an indoor variety of perennial spiderworts that also go by the Latin name of Tradescantia. The bottle itself is tightly sealed; David only needs to rotate it around often so it grows evenly towards the light. "Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance," he said. "I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle."
So what makes the spiderwort so special that it can grow with almost no outside help? The secret is really pretty simple -- the plant has been extremely successful at creating its own mini ecosystem. Using the little water that David gave the plant 42 years ago, it has managed to get a water cycle going inside the bottle. The water is taken up by the roots, released into the air through transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture and the cycle repeats itself.
Through the glass, the leaves are able absorb as much light as they need to photosynthesize into energy that helps the plant grow. The oxygen created during photosynthesis also puts enough moisture in the air for it to 'rain' back down on the plant. As the leaves age, they drop to the bottom and rot, helping to create carbon dioxide (also needed for photosynthesis) and nutrients that are absorbed by the roots. At night, when there is no sunlight, the plant breaks down nutrients and uses cellular respiration to stay alive.
The bottle has lived for 27 years in the same spot in David's retirement home in Cranleigh, Surrey. He took a photograph of it to a BBC radio show called 'Gardener's Question Time', to check with the experts if the plant was of any horticultural interest. And that's when it gained the media's attention. According to garden designer and television presenter Chris Beardshaw, "It's a great example of the way in which a plant is able to recycle, it's the perfect cycle of life."
Beardshaw pointed out that this process was one of the reasons for NASA's interest in taking plants into space. "Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining. This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity," he said.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about bottle gardens. Like organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, who said: "It's wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can't see the point. I can't smell it, I can't eat it." David has no choice but to agree with Bob. David did say that the bottle is incredibly dull and doesn't really do anything, but he's still excited to see just how long it will last. He hopes to pass it on to his future generations, and if they aren't interested, to the Royal Horticultural Society.
David's bottle garden is essentially one of the best examples of nature's recycling process. And the wonderful part is that it should work with almost any plant, not just spiderworts. All you need to create your own is a large glass container with a wide neck and some good quality potting compost, deep enough for the plant to sink in its roots. Introduce very few tiny specimens of the plant of your choice, move them into position with kitchen tongs, water them ever-so-lightly, seal the jar, and place it in a well-lit spot. That's about it -- you've got yourself a beautiful bottle garden that will thrive for years to come.

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully lower a seedling in. Then he put in just about a quarter of a pint of water, and believe it or not, he only watered the plant once more in 1972. Never again after that. It has been alive and kicking for the past 54 years.
The plant that David placed in the bottle is an indoor variety of perennial spiderworts that also go by the Latin name of Tradescantia. The bottle itself is tightly sealed; David only needs to rotate it around often so it grows evenly towards the light. "Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance," he said. "I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle."
So what makes the spiderwort so special that it can grow with almost no outside help? The secret is really pretty simple -- the plant has been extremely successful at creating its own mini ecosystem. Using the little water that David gave the plant 42 years ago, it has managed to get a water cycle going inside the bottle. The water is taken up by the roots, released into the air through transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture and the cycle repeats itself.
Through the glass, the leaves are able absorb as much light as they need to photosynthesize into energy that helps the plant grow. The oxygen created during photosynthesis also puts enough moisture in the air for it to 'rain' back down on the plant. As the leaves age, they drop to the bottom and rot, helping to create carbon dioxide (also needed for photosynthesis) and nutrients that are absorbed by the roots. At night, when there is no sunlight, the plant breaks down nutrients and uses cellular respiration to stay alive.
The bottle has lived for 27 years in the same spot in David's retirement home in Cranleigh, Surrey. He took a photograph of it to a BBC radio show called 'Gardener's Question Time', to check with the experts if the plant was of any horticultural interest. And that's when it gained the media's attention. According to garden designer and television presenter Chris Beardshaw, "It's a great example of the way in which a plant is able to recycle, it's the perfect cycle of life."
Beardshaw pointed out that this process was one of the reasons for NASA's interest in taking plants into space. "Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining. This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity," he said.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about bottle gardens. Like organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, who said: "It's wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can't see the point. I can't smell it, I can't eat it." David has no choice but to agree with Bob. David did say that the bottle is incredibly dull and doesn't really do anything, but he's still excited to see just how long it will last. He hopes to pass it on to his future generations, and if they aren't interested, to the Royal Horticultural Society.
David's bottle garden is essentially one of the best examples of nature's recycling process. And the wonderful part is that it should work with almost any plant, not just spiderworts. All you need to create your own is a large glass container with a wide neck and some good quality potting compost, deep enough for the plant to sink in its roots. Introduce very few tiny specimens of the plant of your choice, move them into position with kitchen tongs, water them ever-so-lightly, seal the jar, and place it in a well-lit spot. That's about it -- you've got yourself a beautiful bottle garden that will thrive for years to come.

California's Prison Isolation Units: Necessary or Inhumane?

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates fr...

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms some inmates spend in the facilities.
More than 500California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those people, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.
Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by staff.
However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit except for a section housing leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.
Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team was able to record Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff only began allowing the balls last year). At all other times—day and night—he is held in his cell alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.
Reporter: Michael Montgomery
Videographer: Singeli Agnew
Editor: Lisa Pickoff-White
Produced by KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms some inmates spend in the facilities.
More than 500California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those people, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.
Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by staff.
However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit except for a section housing leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.
Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team was able to record Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff only began allowing the balls last year). At all other times—day and night—he is held in his cell alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.
Reporter: Michael Montgomery
Videographer: Singeli Agnew
Editor: Lisa Pickoff-White
Produced by KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting

In this video, we meet Jeff, Rose, and their 5 girls who are living completely off grid on a 40-acre piece of land in NorthernBritish Columbia, Canada. They built their own off-grid house for less than $25,000 with cedar posts sunk into the ground like a pole barn, log rafters, plywood, foam insulation, and a living roof. The house was so affordable to build because they didn't have to excavate or pour a concrete foundation, dig a well, or install a septic system.
They have 2 solar power systems to power everything they need. The first solar system is just one solar panel that generates 12-Volt power for their lights, cell phones, and music player. The larger system is a 2.5 Kilowatt solar power system installed on their shop roof with a lithium ion battery bank that powers their full-sized fridge, a chest freezer, washing machine, as well as a mixer, blender and a toaster. They have a backup generator but they only have to use it for about 40 hours per year during prolonged cloudy or snowy periods.
All of the water the family uses is rainwater collected from their shop roof and stored in a tank under the shop floor to keep it cool. They carry buckets of water into the house for cooking, dishes and showers. To produce clean drinking water, they filter their rainwater in a passive water filter called a Burkey (check them out here: http://www.berkeyfilters.com).
The grey water from their kitchen sink and shower drains into a shallow grey water field in the backyard.
They have 2 composting bucket toilets and they sprinkle sawdust into the buckets after each use to absorb moisture and prevent smells.
For heat, they cut their own firewood for their BlazeKing catalytic wood stove, and for their antique cookstove in the kitchen that they use for cooking and baking.
Jeff and Rose homeschool their 5 girls for a few hours each day and also ensure that their kids are learning diverse life skills like growing their own food, caring for horses, raising bees, and more.
We're very impressed with the clever solutions this family has come up with to make off-grid living seem so easy.
If you want to learn more about this inspiring family and follow their journey, check out their Gridlessness project — they have a blog and a YouTube channel.
Gridlessness YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClt1rDdFd-VUX8VXmWummSQ
Gridlessness Blog:
http://gridlessness.com
Thanks for watching!
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In this video, we meet Jeff, Rose, and their 5 girls who are living completely off grid on a 40-acre piece of land in NorthernBritish Columbia, Canada. They built their own off-grid house for less than $25,000 with cedar posts sunk into the ground like a pole barn, log rafters, plywood, foam insulation, and a living roof. The house was so affordable to build because they didn't have to excavate or pour a concrete foundation, dig a well, or install a septic system.
They have 2 solar power systems to power everything they need. The first solar system is just one solar panel that generates 12-Volt power for their lights, cell phones, and music player. The larger system is a 2.5 Kilowatt solar power system installed on their shop roof with a lithium ion battery bank that powers their full-sized fridge, a chest freezer, washing machine, as well as a mixer, blender and a toaster. They have a backup generator but they only have to use it for about 40 hours per year during prolonged cloudy or snowy periods.
All of the water the family uses is rainwater collected from their shop roof and stored in a tank under the shop floor to keep it cool. They carry buckets of water into the house for cooking, dishes and showers. To produce clean drinking water, they filter their rainwater in a passive water filter called a Burkey (check them out here: http://www.berkeyfilters.com).
The grey water from their kitchen sink and shower drains into a shallow grey water field in the backyard.
They have 2 composting bucket toilets and they sprinkle sawdust into the buckets after each use to absorb moisture and prevent smells.
For heat, they cut their own firewood for their BlazeKing catalytic wood stove, and for their antique cookstove in the kitchen that they use for cooking and baking.
Jeff and Rose homeschool their 5 girls for a few hours each day and also ensure that their kids are learning diverse life skills like growing their own food, caring for horses, raising bees, and more.
We're very impressed with the clever solutions this family has come up with to make off-grid living seem so easy.
If you want to learn more about this inspiring family and follow their journey, check out their Gridlessness project — they have a blog and a YouTube channel.
Gridlessness YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClt1rDdFd-VUX8VXmWummSQ
Gridlessness Blog:
http://gridlessness.com
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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STAY IN TOUCH!
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Blog: www.exploringalternatives.ca
Facebook: /exploringalternativesblog
Instagram: @exploringalternatives
Music & SongCredits:
All music in this video was composed, performed, and recorded by Mat Dubé of Exploring Alternatives.

MOST ISOLATED Communities Around the World

From the isolated native people in the highlands of Tibet to the mysterious islands on a few people will dare to live on, here are 11 most isolated communities
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From the isolated native people in the highlands of Tibet to the mysterious islands on a few people will dare to live on, here are 11 most isolated communities
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5. Most Isolated Capital
What do you think the coldest capital on earth is? Moscow, Bern, Ottawa? All Wrong! If you guessed Ulaanbaatar located in Mongolia good job! To the south lies a strange, dry, cold Gobi desert that receives little to no precipitation all year. To the North, you have siberia.
This city is regarded as the coldest capital on earth and suffers from long and unbearable freezing winters! We sort of see it as the most isolated capital as well and this whole area of Central Asia is just extremely remote! We don’t even think Genghis Khan could have handled temperatures this cold. Just walking on the street with any exposed skin can result in pain. Do you ever hear anyone saying, hey i’m taking off work to go to Mongolia for a week!? Uh no.. You really wouldn't want to forget a jacket living here. It’s also the largest city on the list with roughly 1.3 million inhabitants which is nearly half the country's population. We’re still surprised that mongolians got out of their huts and even built a capital! Due to its high elevation, proximity to Siberia and lack of precipitation, it’s a rough place to live nonetheless. Due to a large amount of permafrost soil in Mongolia, it makes building foundations difficult. It’s believed this is why many Mongolians live in houses known as Yurts.
4. Siwa OasisWithin the vast Sahara desert lies the Siwa Oasis, in one of the most isolated settlements in Egypt. Situated near the Libyan border, it’s about 348 miles or 560 kilometers west of the capital Cairo. Living here however is nothing new and the earliest known settlers came here during the 10th century BC. Being completely surrounded by dry, inhospitable desert has allowed the Siwa people to develop a unique culture from the rest of the Middle East, which is often seen in their style of artwork, jewelry and their same sex marriage ceremonies. They also speak what’s known as the Siwi or Oasis berber, making them somewhat foreign to the eastern part of Egypt. Here in this photo we see a girl wearing the traditional dress of Siwa while grinding salt. The oasis is inhabited by about 30,000 Siwa Berbers and the hot springs are known to occasionally attract tourists. If you’re looking for some good dates, the people of the Siwa Oasis have been growing them for the past 3,500 years
3. Montecristo
The tiny island off the coast of Tuscany, Italy called Montecristo has been shrouded in mystery since the 16th century. To this day, only 1000 tourists are permitted to visit the nature reserve located on this island each year. On top of it, they have to wait 3 years in order to get the visa, just to visit! Is there something the Italian government doesn’t want people to find out about here or is it just to preserve the nature. This was also home to the famous French writerAlexandre Dumas, who wrote the 3 Musketeers. In the novel The count of Monte Cristo, he told of legends about buried treasure left by pirates here. Is it a coincidence that excavations are also strictly permitted on this island? The current population of this island is labelled at 2 people.
2. Szigetszentmiklos -(see-gets-zent-miklos)
This community in Hungary is found just about southwest of Budapest in Google maps and it’s quite strange how isolated they seem. The little hungarian community is completely surrounded by water near the Danube River and is quite unurbanized in comparison to the big capital city. There’s about 30,000 residents of this little town which but only a few hundred choose to live on these islands. Villagers enjoy hunting, fishing, and boating in order to stay self sufficient. You don’t really get a true sense of how isolated it is until you kind roam around here on google earth. This photo here shows the tiny fishing community on the body of water known as Pebble lake, and it looks like a good village to survive the zombie apocalypse
Tristan De Cuhna
This island gets the nickname as the most remote inhabited island in the world because it sort of is. Tristan is the tip of a volcano thrusted upwards from the ocean floor and by looking at the signs, you’ll definitely feel a long ways away from home. The elevation peaks at about 6500 feet. The closest land mass is Saint Helena only about 1500 miles away. It seems to be situated directly between the southern tips of Africa and South America and is only accessible by navigating the brutal seas . You might imagine that life on the world’s most remote island is a little bit rough, but people here enjoy a good standard of living here. Crime seems virtually nonexistent on the biggest settlement called Edinbourgh of the Seven Seas. Many family owns potato patches to grow there own food.

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What do you think the coldest capital on earth is? Moscow, Bern, Ottawa? All Wrong! If you guessed Ulaanbaatar located in Mongolia good job! To the south lies a strange, dry, cold Gobi desert that receives little to no precipitation all year. To the North, you have siberia.
This city is regarded as the coldest capital on earth and suffers from long and unbearable freezing winters! We sort of see it as the most isolated capital as well and this whole area of Central Asia is just extremely remote! We don’t even think Genghis Khan could have handled temperatures this cold. Just walking on the street with any exposed skin can result in pain. Do you ever hear anyone saying, hey i’m taking off work to go to Mongolia for a week!? Uh no.. You really wouldn't want to forget a jacket living here. It’s also the largest city on the list with roughly 1.3 million inhabitants which is nearly half the country's population. We’re still surprised that mongolians got out of their huts and even built a capital! Due to its high elevation, proximity to Siberia and lack of precipitation, it’s a rough place to live nonetheless. Due to a large amount of permafrost soil in Mongolia, it makes building foundations difficult. It’s believed this is why many Mongolians live in houses known as Yurts.
4. Siwa OasisWithin the vast Sahara desert lies the Siwa Oasis, in one of the most isolated settlements in Egypt. Situated near the Libyan border, it’s about 348 miles or 560 kilometers west of the capital Cairo. Living here however is nothing new and the earliest known settlers came here during the 10th century BC. Being completely surrounded by dry, inhospitable desert has allowed the Siwa people to develop a unique culture from the rest of the Middle East, which is often seen in their style of artwork, jewelry and their same sex marriage ceremonies. They also speak what’s known as the Siwi or Oasis berber, making them somewhat foreign to the eastern part of Egypt. Here in this photo we see a girl wearing the traditional dress of Siwa while grinding salt. The oasis is inhabited by about 30,000 Siwa Berbers and the hot springs are known to occasionally attract tourists. If you’re looking for some good dates, the people of the Siwa Oasis have been growing them for the past 3,500 years
3. Montecristo
The tiny island off the coast of Tuscany, Italy called Montecristo has been shrouded in mystery since the 16th century. To this day, only 1000 tourists are permitted to visit the nature reserve located on this island each year. On top of it, they have to wait 3 years in order to get the visa, just to visit! Is there something the Italian government doesn’t want people to find out about here or is it just to preserve the nature. This was also home to the famous French writerAlexandre Dumas, who wrote the 3 Musketeers. In the novel The count of Monte Cristo, he told of legends about buried treasure left by pirates here. Is it a coincidence that excavations are also strictly permitted on this island? The current population of this island is labelled at 2 people.
2. Szigetszentmiklos -(see-gets-zent-miklos)
This community in Hungary is found just about southwest of Budapest in Google maps and it’s quite strange how isolated they seem. The little hungarian community is completely surrounded by water near the Danube River and is quite unurbanized in comparison to the big capital city. There’s about 30,000 residents of this little town which but only a few hundred choose to live on these islands. Villagers enjoy hunting, fishing, and boating in order to stay self sufficient. You don’t really get a true sense of how isolated it is until you kind roam around here on google earth. This photo here shows the tiny fishing community on the body of water known as Pebble lake, and it looks like a good village to survive the zombie apocalypse
Tristan De Cuhna
This island gets the nickname as the most remote inhabited island in the world because it sort of is. Tristan is the tip of a volcano thrusted upwards from the ocean floor and by looking at the signs, you’ll definitely feel a long ways away from home. The elevation peaks at about 6500 feet. The closest land mass is Saint Helena only about 1500 miles away. It seems to be situated directly between the southern tips of Africa and South America and is only accessible by navigating the brutal seas . You might imagine that life on the world’s most remote island is a little bit rough, but people here enjoy a good standard of living here. Crime seems virtually nonexistent on the biggest settlement called Edinbourgh of the Seven Seas. Many family owns potato patches to grow there own food.

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This Family Live In Perfect Isolation

BushBabes (2009): Far away from the bustle of modern life, this family have found the ultimate alternative life.
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Since airing, Christian, the eldest son featured in this short, has become a successful world traveller and teaches extreme survival skills in Antarctica. To find out more about his life after growing up at Gorge River, check out his Adventure Travel Blog: www.WildKiwi.org
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The Long family live as hermits in South Westland, New Zealand.They live in a makeshift hut without even the basics of modern life and have had no contact with the outside world for over 15 years.
Once a young medical student poised for great success, Robert Long decided to relocate his family to the bush. "I wanted to be somewhere where it was all wilderness", he says. Now living amongst the mountains of New Zealand they thrive from a lifestyle that would terrify most people. Of his children, he says "I think they concentrate on what we miss out on, they don't realise how much we have that they don't have."
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In just the last two months, we lost 29 lives to mob lynching. There have been 82 recorded cases of mob violence in the name of the protection of cows since 2014. At least 12 cases of lynching on the suspicion of child abduction have happened since just May this year. In what has become India's national shame, lynchings and cow politics has risen since 2014, when the Modi government came to power. Are these mob lynchings isolated instances or a growing epidemic?
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How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma

Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
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Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by PecosHank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com
- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
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Thriving Bottle Garden Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years

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David Latimer is one of the world's few proud owners of an entirely self-sustaining bottled garden. Looking at pictures of the lush green bottle, you'd think that growing it involved a lot of hard work. But the truth is that David hasn't even watered it in over 40 years. It's just been sitting under the hallway stairs in his home and it's doing extremely well on its own.
The story of his this amazing experiment began in 1960, on Easter Sunday, when David decided that it would be fun to start a bottle garden. Since they were a bit of a craze back then, he wanted to see for himself what the fuss was all about. So out of idle curiosity, he got himself a 10-gallon globular bottle, poured some compost at the bottom and used a piece of wire to carefully lower a seedling in. Then he put in just about a quarter of a pint of water, and believe it or not, he only watered the plant once more in 1972. Never again after that. It has been alive and kicking for the past 54 years.
The plant that David placed in the bottle is an indoor variety of perennial spiderworts that also go by the Latin name of Tradescantia. The bottle itself is tightly sealed; David only needs to rotate it around often so it grows evenly towards the light. "Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance," he said. "I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle."
So what makes the spiderwort so special that it can grow with almost no outside help? The secret is really pretty simple -- the plant has been extremely successful at creating its own mini ecosystem. Using the little water that David gave the plant 42 years ago, it has managed to get a water cycle going inside the bottle. The water is taken up by the roots, released into the air through transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture and the cycle repeats itself.
Through the glass, the leaves are able absorb as much light as they need to photosynthesize into energy that helps the plant grow. The oxygen created during photosynthesis also puts enough moisture in the air for it to 'rain' back down on the plant. As the leaves age, they drop to the bottom and rot, helping to create carbon dioxide (also needed for photosynthesis) and nutrients that are absorbed by the roots. At night, when there is no sunlight, the plant breaks down nutrients and uses cellular respiration to stay alive.
The bottle has lived for 27 years in the same spot in David's retirement home in Cranleigh, Surrey. He took a photograph of it to a BBC radio show called 'Gardener's Question Time', to check with the experts if the plant was of any horticultural interest. And that's when it gained the media's attention. According to garden designer and television presenter Chris Beardshaw, "It's a great example of the way in which a plant is able to recycle, it's the perfect cycle of life."
Beardshaw pointed out that this process was one of the reasons for NASA's interest in taking plants into space. "Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining. This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity," he said.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about bottle gardens. Like organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, who said: "It's wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can't see the point. I can't smell it, I can't eat it." David has no choice but to agree with Bob. David did say that the bottle is incredibly dull and doesn't really do anything, but he's still excited to see just how long it will last. He hopes to pass it on to his future generations, and if they aren't interested, to the Royal Horticultural Society.
David's bottle garden is essentially one of the best examples of nature's recycling process. And the wonderful part is that it should work with almost any plant, not just spiderworts. All you need to create your own is a large glass container with a wide neck and some good quality potting compost, deep enough for the plant to sink in its roots. Introduce very few tiny specimens of the plant of your choice, move them into position with kitchen tongs, water them ever-so-lightly, seal the jar, and place it in a well-lit spot. That's about it -- you've got yourself a beautiful bottle garden that will thrive for years to come.

California's Prison Isolation Units: Necessary or Inhumane?

In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
Around the state there are four of these facilities, which are known as Security Housing Units. The most controversial is at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
At the heart of the debate: conditions in the units (many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls); criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they get out; and the lengthy terms some inmates spend in the facilities.
More than 500California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those people, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.
Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by staff.
However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit except for a section housing leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.
Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team was able to record Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff only began allowing the balls last year). At all other times—day and night—he is held in his cell alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.
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Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!

In this video, we meet Jeff, Rose, and their 5 girls who are living completely off grid on a 40-acre piece of land in NorthernBritish Columbia, Canada. They built their own off-grid house for less than $25,000 with cedar posts sunk into the ground like a pole barn, log rafters, plywood, foam insulation, and a living roof. The house was so affordable to build because they didn't have to excavate or pour a concrete foundation, dig a well, or install a septic system.
They have 2 solar power systems to power everything they need. The first solar system is just one solar panel that generates 12-Volt power for their lights, cell phones, and music player. The larger system is a 2.5 Kilowatt solar power system installed on their shop roof with a lithium ion battery bank that powers their full-sized fridge, a chest freezer, washing machine, as well as a mixer, blender and a toaster. They have a backup generator but they only have to use it for about 40 hours per year during prolonged cloudy or snowy periods.
All of the water the family uses is rainwater collected from their shop roof and stored in a tank under the shop floor to keep it cool. They carry buckets of water into the house for cooking, dishes and showers. To produce clean drinking water, they filter their rainwater in a passive water filter called a Burkey (check them out here: http://www.berkeyfilters.com).
The grey water from their kitchen sink and shower drains into a shallow grey water field in the backyard.
They have 2 composting bucket toilets and they sprinkle sawdust into the buckets after each use to absorb moisture and prevent smells.
For heat, they cut their own firewood for their BlazeKing catalytic wood stove, and for their antique cookstove in the kitchen that they use for cooking and baking.
Jeff and Rose homeschool their 5 girls for a few hours each day and also ensure that their kids are learning diverse life skills like growing their own food, caring for horses, raising bees, and more.
We're very impressed with the clever solutions this family has come up with to make off-grid living seem so easy.
If you want to learn more about this inspiring family and follow their journey, check out their Gridlessness project — they have a blog and a YouTube channel.
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(CNN)The man behind "The Grinch" hopes the film will help grow the hearts of moviegoers ... Cumberbatch said the new film includes more background on what caused the Grinch to grow so cold ... Christmas is obviously a time of loneliness and isolation for him rather than the usual family joy and a spirit of belonging and community."....